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Washington, D. C., Oct. 2Z.-A^though the lumber production in the New England states in 1930 was only 607,668,000 feet, or two per cent of that of the country as a whole, New Hampshire and Maine were third and fourth of all states in production of white pine, being,exceeded only by Idaho and Minnesota, according to a state survey of the lumber industry by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Nearly all of the balsam fir cut in the United States in 1930 was in Vermont and Maine. Maine was third of all states in spruce production, following Washington and Oregon, and fourth in production of birch, with Vermont fifth, and New Hampshire sixth.

One-lialf of the lumber produced in New Engiancl in 1930 rvas white pine. Spruce and hemlock were other important softwoods; birch, maple and oak, the leacling hardwoods. Only three mills in Nerv England-two ir.r \naine and one in Nerv Hampshire-cut each over 10,000,000 feet of lumber in 1930, thus designating this section as one preeminently of small mills.

According to early Census Bureau records. Nlaine was tlie second state in lumber production in 1839, when Nerv York rvas first. In 1869, when Michigan was fir5rt, Pennsylvania second and Nerv York third, Maine ta"kea rr{tii. Maine's largest lumber production in the last thirty:years was in 1907, when 1,103,808,000 feet was reported 6y 902 mills. Maine is the only Nerv'England state showing a record of a billion feet or more in any one of the last thirty years. ..t...

Per capita consumption of lumber in Nerv Englancl rl4as l7O feet in 1930, compared rvith l90 for the country as d rvhole. In New Hampshire, per capita consumption was 350 feet; in Vermont,255 feet;in Maine,215 feet. In contrast with this was thb per capita consumption in the thickly populated industrial states of Massachusetts of 155 feet and Connecticut of 110 feet. The per capita consumption ol l7O feet for New England represents a total consumption of ltrmber of 1,389,466,000 feet in 193p, of which'35 Per cent was produced within the six stafgs, 45 pei.':eent t-anre from other states and20 per cent was imported, mostlv from Canada.

In New England much of the softwood lumber .on.unitu.i is in building and construction, in l;ox factories and in sash, door ancl millwork plants. rvith some used in the car construction industry and in ship and boat building. Principal softwoods used in the wood-consuming factories are white pine, Southern pine and spruce. Besides for building and boxes, hardwoods are used in Connecticut for clocks; in Maine for woodenware and novelties. shuttles and spools; in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for furniture and chairs, boot and shoe findings, toys and musical instruments. Birch, maple and oak are important hardwoods used. Although its production was not large, Maine ranked third of all states in 1930 in shingle production, following Washington and Oregon

Sales of lumber by New England sawmills are largely direct to wood-consuming factories and in Connecticut also to railroads and public utility companies. Local sales are

Members of the Lumbermen's Post of the American Legion state that there is a brisk demand for ti.ckets to the St. Mary-U. C. L. A. football game that will be played in the Olympic stadium, Los Angeles, on Armistice Day, November ll. This football classic is being sponsored by the American Legion of Los Angeles.

The Post selling the greatest number of tickets will be awarded a prize of 950 rvith an additional prize of 925 to the chairman of the winning ticket committee. If the Lumbermen's Post win these prizes, they plal to purchase 'Colors for the Post. The Lumbermen's Post are offering desirable tickets in Tunnel 5, and can be secured from Les Cunningham, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, and Finance Officer of the Post, Telephone CApital 6191, or from the members of the Post. The tickets are $1.65 each. A big turnout is expected at the game, and anyone planning to attend should get their tickets at once.

'' California Fores.t Areas Decreasing 6. In Drze

Lr the Days of '49, when the rnud flats of San Francisco Bay extended to Montgomery Street and Los Angeles rvas a pueblo, the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada and the Douglas fir forests of the Coast Range clothed the mountains and foothills in a much r,vider belt than they do today, according to a report by A. E. Wieslander of the California Forest Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service. Logging, grazing and particularly forest fires are the chief factors which have convertecl the old commercial forests to rvhat are now comparatively .ivorthless land and have created a lancl management proltlem of large proltortions in California.

In Eldorado County alone, according to Wieslanrler, the pon-derosa pine forepts have retreated l0 miles up the lnoun.1ain rslopes from an elevation of 1,000 feet to the 2,500 foot elintour on a 3O miles front, leaving a strip of 162,000 acres ,,giitirely deforested and an even larger area thinly stocked 'iiith seconcl growth trees. This land,:which is capable of producing a forest stand of 37,000 board feet of lumber per acre, more than is usually found today on the average commercial logging areas, is now mostly covered with half scrub woodland, worthless for timber and too dense or too lrrushy for good grazing.

Isolated survivors of the original forest, scattered groups of second growth and such names as Sawmill Flat, Sawmill Creek and Shingle Springs, oc,curring in what are now treeless areas, indicate that they were once in forested territory. This theory is confirmed by old records which prove that from 1850 to l87O many sawmills supplied lumber to the placer mines in the central Sierra region.

proportionately more important than in many states. Except in Maine, not much lumber is sold by the mills to wholesalers and comparatively little anywhere in New England direct to retailers.

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